Cell phone as baby monitor

My partner and I were vacationing at a B&B with our 1-year old daughter. When she fell asleep at 8PM, there was plenty of evening left for the adults, but since we were all sleeping in the same room, we didn't bring our baby monitor. Her mother came up with this great hack — our cell phones. We have free mobile-to-mobile calls, so no issue there. She put our daughter down, called me on my cell phone and left her phone near the pack-and-play. I put her call on speaker and muted my phone. Instant monitor, and we could sit out on the porch worry-free for a couple of hours.

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used this hack today! my 3 year old daughter got ill on the ride home from seeing grandpa. when we got home, she was asleep, and i hated to wake her, knowing we had to do major clean-up once out of the car. so i called the house phone from my cell (free weekends), put the cell in the car, brough the baby inside for lunch and listened via speaker-phone. when he went down for his nap, AN HOUR LATER, she was just waking up. multi-tasking at it’s finest!